would you want to die in a supermassive black hole?

Question

if it were possible would you want to, just to see what it was like?

if you were just hangin around in a spacesuit, getting pulled in, would you want to know where it leads to? if anywhere at all? or would you not prefer that terror?

Answer 1

It wouldn't "lead," to anywhere. Well at least, we wouldn't be able to find out. As we get closer and closer to the black hole, our bodies would get stretched, and would eventually be torn apart by the mass gravitational pull. (As well as the spaceship, and any recording devices that we use to try and see what's inside a black hole.)

Now, because the black hole pulls in light as well, and the closer the light gets to it, the slower it escapes, if someone were to view us going into a black hole, it'd look like we would be moving slower and slower, the closer we get to the black hole. Eventually, it'll look like we are standing in one place, not moving, or breathing. (Like a picture in a picture frame.) Well, at least until the black hole evaporates, billions of years from now, then we'd just vanish...never to be seen again.

To answer your question, no, I would not like to get stretched apart, thank you very much.

Answer 2

Well, if you survived the terrifying amount of x-ray radiation pouring in an invisible stream from the black hole, and survived somehow being converted into an ultramassive spec smaller than a quark's eyelash, the lightshow at the event horizon might just be the coolest thing since Woodstock.

Answer 3

One answer above is wrong: you would not die before you passed the event horizon for a supermassive blackhole. In fact, for a blackhole the size of the one at the center of our galaxy, the tidal forces at the event horizon are small enough for a person to easily withstand. You would eventually be torn apart as you go further in, but not at the horizon.

Answer 4

1. no.
2. no (although I am curious; I'd probably try to find out without dying).
3. The problem would be death by "spaghettification" -- and that is the real term. It would happen wherever the tidal effects would be strong enough, which could be well inside the event horizon for very massive black holes.

Answer 5

Spare me the terror OK.. Think I'll just stay here on little old earth and die quietly and calmly some day (in the distant future I hope).

Answer 6

And say you do survive....according to einstein...the fabric of space cannot be ripped...and in the case of a blackhole....its a hugely dense ball of mass and so it would create a huge steep in the fabric of space.....sooo technically, you would be trapped at the bottom of this steep fabric...kind of like a well.....no parallel universe or any of that nonsense.

Answer 7

No.....I'd rather not die in a suppermassive black hole...
What a stupid question.
And black holes don't lead to anywhere at all, so it wouldn't even be worth it!

Answer 8

No I would not like to know what is in there and I wouldn't like to Die that way. I would rather be ripped apart by flesh eating freaks.

Answer 9

Well, not right now, but in about sixty or seventy years or so, call me. I really am kind of partial to life at the moment.

Answer 10

Hi,

You would be torn to shreds from the tidal forces exerted on your body. You and your spacecraft would not survive.

James :-)